Tag Archives: Africa

Traditional deities clash with development projects in Africa

April 24, 2012 1 comment

In Ghana/Africa, some development projects could be difficult to discharge against rigid traditional beliefs. In some places, such as Kumasi, capital of the Asante Region and Ghana’s second largest c...

Africa will take the top spots for growth in 2012 – with (post civil w...

April 19, 2012 no comments

Africa will take the top spots for growth in 2012 – with (post civil war) Libya up 76% and Sierra Leone managing a great second place with 36% growth. Nigeria takes second place among all MSCI fronti...

Africa gears up for the debilitating effects of climate change as effo...

April 18, 2012 1 comment

Of the debilitating effects of climate change the world over, Africa seems to be the most hit continent. Deforestation, resulting in the drying of water bodies, extinction of animal species, desertif...

Africa struggles for “Democratic Deepening”

April 6, 2012 no comments

Forget about the democratic hiccup in Mali, once of one of Africa’s emerging democracies. Or the fact that Mauritius is the only African country ranked as being “full” democracy by the Economist Inte...

New breed of leaders respond to Africa’s call for attitudinal change...

March 31, 2012 no comments

Africa is experiencing a dramatic political change that has the propensity to alter its long–standing image as a corruption breeding ground and a political and economically challenged region, that th...

Africa’s inhibitive values, International ideals collide

March 13, 2012 3 comments

As Africa flowers and its traditional values play out naturally with international ideals, the ensuing schisms are helping to refine some toxic African values that have been entangling Africans’ well...

Migrant workers find it hard to stay in Libya and difficult to return ...

March 3, 2012 no comments

TRIPOLI, Rebecca Murray (IPS) – At the battered terminal of Tripoli’s tiny Mitiga airport, over 150 young men and women jostle to be repatriated home to Nigeria on Libya’s Buraq airlines. This journe...

The United States urges U.N. and A.U. cooperation

January 22, 2012 no comments

The United States (US) has challenged the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) to work on improving their relations and accommodate each other to help foster peace and development in Africa...

Africa takes steps towards achieving food security after significant p...

January 21, 2012 no comments

NAIROBI, (IPS) – A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa ar...

As Sierra Leone takes steps to end corruption – Other African st...

January 18, 2012 1 comment

Africa has long been considered among the world’s most corrupt places, a factor seen as contributing to the slow development and impoverishment of many African countries. Out of the ten countri...

Africa begins to rise above aid as the domestic private sector becomes...

January 12, 2012 1 comment

NAIROBI, (IPS) – An increasing number of African countries are beginning to step away from aid dependency, as the domestic private sector becomes the engine of growth across much of Africa. Currently...

To create food security in Africa, focus on the value chain

January 10, 2012 1 comment

The tragic famine in Somalia has once again focused concern on food security in Africa.  There are many facets to this issue, and many solutions. None is easy.  But, as the suffering in Somalia and o...

India joins the rush to grab African farmlands

January 7, 2012 2 comments

New Delhi – Indian-owned companies have joined the race with China, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, South Korea and the European Union in acquiring farmlands in Africa “at throwaway prices, indulging in enviro...

As the world prepares to celebrate Christmas – Africa should not be fo...

December 25, 2011 no comments

Christmas is very important in the world’s calendar. It is the month our saviour and Lord Jesus Christ was born. We have every reason to be joyful, thankful and delighted. Because of Christ, we are s...

The Pope and the dangers of Africa’s witchcraft menace

December 6, 2011 no comments

The eerie image of a one-month-old baby called Mercy accused of being a witch and afterward abandoned to die in Ghana’s Upper East Region reminds me of the beginning of the Book of Job, where in the ...

Africa’s boat people are the victims of abductions, extortions, ...

November 20, 2011 1 comment

Geneva – Over 12,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Yemen by boat in October, the highest monthly total since the United Nations refugee agency began tracking the flow of between the Horn of Africa...